My daughter's brutal honesty got me called to school again and again
My daughter has always been super witty and sarcastic. She's the kind of person who just tells it like it is, which was a huge hit with her teachers in Germany. They'd always stop me to tell me the funny things she said.
But here in the U.S. school system, it caused some problems. When she was seven, I got a call because she made a "special" Valentine's Day card for a boy. Everyone was supposed to give out generic cards, but hers had a custom poem: "Roses are red, violets are blue. You pick your nose, you know you do."
That was just the start. When she was nine, her teacher assigned them to write about living in 1492. My daughter listed all the expected stuff -- no electricity, no video games, no cars. Then she ended her paper with, "And if I lived in 1492, I would be dead now."
I was eight months pregnant, and the school made me come in because of that last line. I walked into a room with the principal, vice principal, and a counselor, all freaking out. They went on and on about what a "problem" this was.
Finally, I got to speak. My first question was, "Are you people absolutely crazy?" I pointed out that what my daughter wrote was simply true. If she had been alive in 1492, she would, in fact, be dead by now. I told them I was tired of their nonsense and to stop dragging my very pregnant self to school every week over some silly thing. I even threatened to go to the school board and town council, since we lived in a small town.
Guess what? They stopped calling me to the school.
My daughter is growing up now, and she's even more outspoken and witty than ever. I love her nature and would never try to change it.
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